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A pseudonymous user on X claims he regained access to 5 bitcoin he had lost for more than a decade after forgetting the password—and it was Anthropic’s Claude chatbot that put all the pieces of the puzzle together for him. After feeding the model files from an old college laptop and attempting to guess trillions of passwords with the assistance of a few different tools, Claude delivered the final breakthrough that unlocked the wallet. According to an inter

Shutterstock / Futurism Parents, if you’re thinking about subjecting your child to some bizarre AI experiment: don’t. “Toddler spent her first night ever sleeping with someone else in the same room: her toddler cousin,” wrote Nicholas Charriere, the CEO of an AI-powered website builder called Mocha, in an X post on Friday. Charriere, seeing that his child was about to have a very formative experience, decided he would record “everything” the two tykes said

OpenAI says it used its own AI models to root out what sounds like some kind of alleged corporate spy. They say they handed them over to the FBI, who made an arrest on October 9. OpenAI told Gizmodo the employee had been working in product at OpenAI since July of last year. According to OpenAI, it performs regular security sweeps, and during one such sweep of a conference room on September 30, its technical surveillance countermeasures found something susp

Steve Jennings / Getty Images for TechCrunch As new AI tools sprout up like weeds, it’s becoming remarkably commonplace for people of all walks of life to outsource their social interactions to the whims of the computer. But for former Google exec and CEO of Yahoo Marissa Mayer, AI is doing a lot more than just making dinner reservations — instead becoming a crutch for the basic tasks of parenthood. Mayer’s latest project is Dazzle, a startup providing per

Olivia Reingold via X A journalist is being raked over the coals after she was caught using AI to edit a photo of an election night party of Michigan Democrats. The journalist, Olivia Reingold, is a staff writer for The Free Press, a conservative, billionaire-aligning media outlet best known for ragging about perceived instances of “wokeness” in culture and attacking critics of Israel. As part of her coverage, Reingold posted a photo on X singling out a wo